For Sale: North Korean Minted Coins

March 28, 2013 7:42 p.m. ET

Gold coins showing the late leader Kim Jong Il were released to commemorate what would have been his 70th birthday on Feb. 16, 2012. (He died in December 2011.)
KCNA/European Pressphoto Agency…

Gold commemorative coins were issued to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea.
KCNA/Reuters…

This photo released in February 1995 shows commemorative gold coins put into circulation in North Korea with the mention, 'The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung will be with us forever.' Kim Il Sung, the father of Kim Jong Il, died in July 1994.
KCNA via Associated Press…

A North Korean woman in Pyongyang in 2000 showed off 10 won coins in commemoration of the historic reunion of Korean families separated in the Korean War.
Agence France-Presse/Getty Images…

Jim Rogers, an American investor now specializing in Asia, wants to purchase all of the North Korean coins being sold at an event this weekend. Mr. Rogers is shown at his home in Singapore.
Lam Thuy Vo for The Wall Street for The Wall Street Journal…